Manny Pacquiao invited to dinner at Buckingham Palace

The 36-year-old boxing legend, the only man in history to win world titles in eight different weight divisions, arrived in London on Wednesday with his wife Jinkee - and the Daily Telegraph reports that he will have dinner with Prince Harry while he is in town.

Pacquiao is a self-confessed Anglophile and a huge fan of the royal family, and reportedly even named one of his daughters Queenie in honour of Queen Elizabeth.

The Telegraph boxing correspondent Gareth Davies writes: "Pacquiao, a congressman in The Philippines, was invited by Prince Harry, a member of the royal family.

"Pacquiao will dine with the prince and will then be taken on a tour of Buckingham Palace."

The paper reminds its readers that the boxer told the paper in an interview last year that his dream was to have "tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace".

And while Davies's report does not say whether Prince Harry will persuade his grandmother to join them for cucumber sandwiches and a pot of Earl Grey, presumably the Army officer will manage to engineer a meeting between the most famous residents of Britain and the Philippines respectively.